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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But I find not but that all Adam's Posterity should have been born and •ived under the same Law that he was made under: And all of them •hould still have heard, [Obey and live, or Sin and die]. And if Adam •ad obeyed till his translation to Glory, or confirmation in the Reward, I find not in Scripture any Promise that this should have been imputed to his Posterity, as the full performance of the Condition of their Life or confirmed Happiness: but that still their own sinning would have been a possible thing, and death would have been the wages of their Sin.
But I find not but that all Adam's Posterity should have been born and •ived under the same Law that he was made under: And all of them •hould still have heard, [Obey and live, or Sin and die]. And if Adam •ad obeyed till his translation to Glory, or confirmation in the Reward, I find not in Scripture any Promise that this should have been im•uted to his Posterity, as the full performance of the Condition of their Life or confirmed Happiness: but that still their own sinning would have been a possible thing, and death would have been the wages of their Sin.
You seem not to set Adam's Merits and imputed Righteousness any •igher than Christ's. And I am too sure that the justified Members of Christ do sin, and must ask daily pardon; And whether or not they be confirmed against total Apostasy, I am sure few if any of them are confirmed against the possibility, or existence, or futurity of Sin, And if you say that Adam's Posterity, though confirmed, should have sinned too, but should have been pardoned as we are; It would be another presumptuous addition and contradiction of Scripture, to assert Pardon without a Saviour and a pardoning Covenant.